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Hi What would be the reason for a slow startup...as it restarts and you've got the Windows XP logo on the black screen with a blue thinking bar moving across in blocks which goes at a normal speed then slows completely down and takes 5-10 minutes to get back up to speed then move onto the blue windows start-up screen and everything is fine from there? Have I made any sense??? System: Microsoft Windows XP – Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Computer: AMD Athlon™ 63 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 2.51 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM Physical Address Extension Have scanned with Panda Security & Spyware Doctor but restart is still really slow. Plus my DVD drive has disappeared. It no longer shows in My computer or device manager. Could this be linked? Can anyone help?

Hi all, I've got a really annoying problem when surfing the internet. Quite often the pages won't load or will show a blank page. When using Firefox I get a message saying "Transferring data from xxxxx" and the page never appears. If I hit refresh it sometimes loads a tiny amount of the screen and then says "done" or it will display the code of the page. Sometimes it loads a blank grey screen, again saying the page has finished loading. After hitting refresh several times the page usually loads. I know my connection is ok because I can stream radio and play online games for hours without disconnecting, the problem only affects my web browsing. I've run the following scans: Avast! Anti-virus Spybot S&D AdAware Vundofix VirtumundoBeGone CCleaner I've also followed a manual guide on removing the vundo trojan, here: Firefox cannot load certain web sites (Vundo trojan) None of these methods have worked and I still have the problem, no matter what browser I use. However, if i boot my machine into safe mode with networking the problem isn't there and I can surf fine. I'm connecting to my router with an ethernet cable and have tried different filters and a different router, the problem still persists. I'm hoping someone can offer some suggestions as to what I can try next as this problem is driving me round the bend http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif Thanks in advance P